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TIL The consumption of soft drinks that are caffeinated, or sweetened with aspartame, is linked to earlier menstruation in girls, which is linked to risk for several chronic diseases

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yALJ TIL Elephants have death rituals.
nW4o7 TIL serial killer John Wayne Gacy lived and worked at a mortuary in Las Vegas years before committing murder. While employed at the mortuary, Gacy would talk to the corpses, take off their clothes, and on one occasion he slept in a coffin with a dead teenage boy.
nWl4G TIL that after enjoying success with the violent and groundbreaking first-person shooter game "Wolfenstein 3D" (1992), games developer id Software licensed their 3D engine to "Super 3D Noah's Ark", a Christian video game that features Noah shooting food at animals inside his ark.
MeVOW TIL of the "Monkey Love Experiments" where infant monkeys were housed with two artificial mothers: one, made only of wire, dispensed food, while the other had no food but was made of soft terrycloth. The monkeys spent nearly all of their time clinging to the soft mother despite the lack of food.